By-elections 1999 – Official Voting Results

Synopsis of the Official Voting Results

Note to the Reader

Electors on the lists

The number of electors on the lists for the five 1999 by-elections are the registered electors appearing on the final lists of electors, established after election day under section 71.32 of the Canada Elections Act, including:

• electors listed in the National Register of Electors
• electors registered during the revision period
• electors who registered on election day
• Canadian Forces electors registered in the five electoral districts, and
• Canadian electors temporarily residing abroad whose last residential address in Canada was in one of the five electoral districts.

As well, at the Windsor–St. Clair by-election, all incarcerated electors registered in the electoral district were also eligible to vote, and appeared on the final lists. As a result of a Federal Court of Appeal decision in October 1999, the only incarcerated electors who were eligible to vote in the November 15 by-elections were those who were registered in one of the four electoral districts and serving sentences of less than two years.

Voting under the Special Voting Rules

The Special Voting Rules allow voting by special ballot, by mail or in person at the office of the returning officer. Two groups of electors may use this method.

The first group consists of electors whose names appear on separate lists:

• Canadian electors temporarily residing outside Canada, and
• Canadian Forces electors.

The first group also includes incarcerated electors. For the Windsor–St. Clair by-election, the list included all incarcerated electors registered in the electoral district. The lists for the November 15 by-election included incarcerated electors who were registered in one of the four electoral districts and serving sentences of less than two years.

The second group consists of resident Canadians whose names appear on the lists of electors of the polling divisions, but who register to vote by special ballot because they will be unable to vote at an advance poll or on election day.

Rounding of figures

Because the figures given in the tables in this report were rounded, there may be some discrepancies in the totals.

Abbreviations of political affiliations

Action	Canadian Action Party
B.Q.	Bloc Québécois
C.H.P.	Christian Heritage Party of Canada
G.P.	The Green Party of Canada
Ind.	Independent
Lib.	Liberal Party of Canada
M.-L.	Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada
N.D.P.	New Democratic Party
NIL	No affiliation
N.L.P.	Natural Law Party of Canada
P.C.	Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
Ref.	Reform Party of Canada

 

Table 3

Number of electors and polling stations

Electoral district	Population*	Electors on the lists	Ordinary polling stations		Advance polling stations	Total polling stations
			Stationary	Mobile

Hull–Aylmer Mount Royal Saskatoon–Rosetown–Biggar Windsor–St. Clair York West Total

97 240 95 616 72 921 106 108 104 957 476 842

69 892 62 841 46 656 71 152 49 959 300 500

188 172 136 199 144 839

3 1 2 3 1 10

11 11 7 9 7 45

202 184 145 211 152 894

 *Based on 1996 Census

Table 4

Number of ballots and voter turnout

Electoral district

Population*

Electors on the lists

Valid ballots

Rejected ballots

Total ballots cast

Percentage of voter participation

Hull–Aylmer   Mount Royal   Saskatoon–Rosetown–Biggar   Windsor–St. Clair   York West   Total

97 240 95 616 72 921 106 108 104 957 476 842

69 892 62 841 46 656 71 152 49 959 300 500

17 643 17 200 15 650 31 827 13 529 95 849

144 110 55 185 154 648

17 787 17 310 15 705 32 012 13 683 96 497

25.5   27.5   33.7   45   27.4   ...

 *Based on 1996 Census

Table 5

List of candidates and individual results

Electoral district Candidate and affiliation Place of residence Occupation Votes obtained Percentage of valid votes     Hull–Aylmer Robert Bélanger (B.Q.) Hull Lawyer 4 495 25.47     Alain Cossette (N.D.P.) Ottawa Unionist 1 356 7.68     Luiz Da Silva (Ref.) Aylmer Waiter 175 0.99     Ron Gray (C.H.P.) Old Chelsea Politician 176 0.99     Jean-Claude Pommet (N.L.P.) Hull Recreologist 103 0.58     Marcel Proulx (Lib.) Hull Administrator 9 532 54.02     Richard St-Cyr (P.C.) Hull Sales Representative 1 448 8.20     John C. Turmel (Ind.)   Ottawa   Banking Systems Engineer 51   0.28       Gail Walker (G.P.) Aylmer Buyer 307 1.74     Mount Royal Mathieu Alarie (B.Q.) Laval Employee 385 2.23     Noel Earl Alexander (P.C.) Montréal Community Worker 648 3.76     Irwin Cotler (Lib.) Côte St-Luc Professor 15 820 91.97     Serge Granger (N.D.P.) Montréal Professor 347 2.01     Saskatoon–   Rosetown–   Biggar Ace Cetinski (NIL)     Edmonton     Chartered Accountant     111     0.70         Henry Dayday (Lib.) Saskatoon Mayor 2 448 15.64     Rich Gabruch (P.C.) Saskatoon Lawyer 2 242 14.32     David Greenfield (G.P.) Saskatoon Citizen Activist 175 1.11     Dennis Gruending (N.D.P.) Saskatoon Journalist 6 353 40.59     Jim McAllister (Ref.) Saskatoon Self-employed 4 321 27.61     Windsor–   St. Clair Joe Comartin (N.D.P.)   Windsor   Lawyer   13 800   43.35       Scott Cowan (Ref.) Kingsville Mortgage Consultant 1 956 6.14     Bruck Easton (P.C.) Windsor Lawyer 2 074 6.51     Rick Limoges (Lib.) Windsor Senior Manager 13 891 43.64     John C. Turmel (NIL)   Ottawa   Banking Systems Engineer 106   0.33      York West   Stephen Burega (Action)   Toronto   Director of Communication 242   1.78       Elio Di Iorio (P.C.) Richmond Hill Sales 1 721 12.72     Enzo Granzotto (Ref.) Toronto Student 377 2.78     Julia McCrea (N.D.P.) Toronto Teacher 1 054 7.79     Judy Sgro (Lib.) Toronto Politician 10 034 74.16     Henry Zeifman (G.P.) Richmond Hill Designer 101 0.74

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